poem for the week: Freedom—The Dream

Published on 27 December 2023 at 17:08

 

It is whatever you thought happened, 

Whatever was placed in your head, 

Ominously, questionably.

A place where consciousness ends,

A place where processes are stacked, 

And where hallucinations run rampant.

A place where you can catch your breath, 

But where you drown in laziness.

A place where a door opens willingly

But another closes just as quickly,

And a curse disperses with dark echoes, 

Repeating "this is what it is to be great,"

Latching you on to a set of choices, 

Rather than allowing the entire Rolodex.

This freedom—it is a place for sanity.

It is a way for people to run away,

Buffering themselves from calamity,

Hoping that the bog of dark echoes lingers, 

Remaining longer than Ancient Rome, 

Naively reliant on something temporary

That has already been proven to fail, 

Denying that history is repeating itself

As it always has and always will

Time after infinite time like numbers—

Prisoner's names.


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